When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Sunday, January 17, 2016

31st year - N° 17 Sunday, 17 January 2016

Composer Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni dies of diabetes mellitus at the age of 80 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

(-)142 years ago

Saturday 17th of January 1874

Chang of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke due to pneumonia, and three hours later Eng dies of fear at the age of 63 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States.

Connected through a 15cm thick navelstring, a doctor was summoned to perform an emergency separation of Chang and Eng Bunker but he was too late. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and a lifted right testicle.

(+)119 years ago

Sunday 17th of January 1897

Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is born in 100 Rue de Paris, Auxerre, Yonne, France.

(x)97 years ago

Friday 17th of January 1919

460 die in Chaonia steamer shipwreck in the Strait of Messina, Italy.

The ship struck a floating mine by moonlight 40 miles off the Messina lighthouse.

(x)66 years ago

Tuesday 17th of January 1950

11 gangsters rob $1.218.211,29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities in Brink's Building, 600 Commercial Street, North End, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Although all of the gangsters were captured and put on trial only 58.000 Dollars were ever recovered. The rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

40-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

In an abandoned brothel I lay on the floor in one of the back rooms. The door was slightly ajar and people could only see the performance by sticking their head inside. I made a machine with a cast of my hand that caressed my back until it bled. A cassette player played Roy Orbison's 'Only the Lonely' all the time.

14 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 17th of January 2002

An abandoned brothel where I performed 'Only the Lonely' in Oudemansstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

(-)10 years ago

Tuesday 17th of January 2006

Triple murderer Clarence Ray Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 76 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Allen's last meal consisted of Buffalo steak and frybread as well as a bucket of KFC white-meat-only chicken, sugar-free pecan pie, sugar-free walnut ice cream and whole milk. The ice-cream was left out to thaw for one hour, which he turned into a milkshake by hand.